Greenhouse
Gas effect on the Perito Moreno Glacier
(The
Reality - Facts)
What Kellyanne Conway would call “Alternative Reality/Facts”
(Right Mr. Pruitt, et al)
The
Trump administration (mostly science deniers) strike again – now on the question
climate change science and the greenhouse gas effect that was used by the Obama
administration as the basis for environmental regulations.
This
update of the following in the below introduction:
Washington (AFP) - A NASA program that cost $10 million per year to
track carbon and methane, key greenhouse
gases that contribute to global warming, has been cancelled, a NASA
spokesman said.
The end of the program --
called the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) — which tracked sources and sinks
for carbon and made high-resolution models of the planet's flows of carbon was
first reported by the Journal Science adding in part: “Now,
President Trump has quietly killed the CMS in a broad attack on climate science
mounted by the White House.”
The journal concluded that NASA “declined to
provide a reason for the cancellation beyond 'budget constraints and higher
priorities within the science budget,” and it quoted NASA spokesman Steve Cole
as saying “… there was no mention of the CMS in a budget deal signed in March,
which allowed the administration's move to take effect.
This story continues at the
AFP link above.
My 2 Cents: This summary says it
best: According to Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of Tufts University's
Center for International Environment and Resource Policy in Medford,
Massachusetts, the CMS cuts jeopardize efforts to verify the emission cuts agreed
to in the Paris climate deal, and she added: “If we cannot measure emissions
reductions, we cannot be confident that countries are adhering to the
agreement, and canceling the CMS is a grave mistake.”
This is truly a lousy move and grow mistake by Trump
and it underscores the stupidity of those GOP “science deniers” like him and so
many others. To deny science is to deny reality and our future in this critical
area. Shame on them.
Closing observation:
The
Trump administration still has not yet appointed nor filled second-tier EPA assistant
administrators to run the different and various policy divisions. Scott Pruitt
who now runs the EPA hates the EPA and has for years.
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Related
to this subject follows – FYI:
The
EPA (history here) will launch
public debates between scientists on climate research, known as red-team, blue-team exercises.
This is the GOP’s challenge to long-standing scientific consensus on human-caused
climate change (i.e., greenhouse
gas emissions and
from here a
very interesting site).
Rightwing
(mostly GOP-funded) advocates who have petitioned the EPA to reverse the “greenhouse
gases” scientific finding underlying EPA regulations governing those emissions
see this debate proposal to scrutinize mainstream climate science as a first
step in that direction to in fact overturn “greenhouse gases” policy regulated
by Obama that every GOPer on the planet hates and disputes as scientific fact
and harsh dislike of “anything Obama.”
BACKGROUND NOTE: In
2007, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA had authority under the federal
Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases from cars if the agency determined
they endangered human health.
Environmental
groups are confident that Pruitt will not be successful if he tries to undo the
endangerment finding because they expect the courts will side with the
scientific consensus that human beings cause climate change.
Pruitt
and the EPA would need to build up a new case that shows carbon dioxide is
innocuous and counter the volumes of scientific research that support the
finding.
David Doniger, climate director for the Natural Resources Defense Council says point blank: “If EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt (one view LA Times) has any grasp of scientific and legal reality, he would realize that
it's a fool's errand to reverse the endangerment determination, and this (he
hopes) could be a way for him to keep the right-wing fringe groups occupied and
also accomplish the goal of further confusing the public debate.”
Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned on this most-critical issue.
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